Star Trek 4 is back on the cards. After the original vision for the movie fell through once Chris Hemsworth turned down the chance to play Kirk’s dad again, it looked like the film series was stalling, but last month it was announced that Legion creator Noah Hawley had been appointed as writer/director, with Chris Pine and the rest of the Enterprise crew expected to return. It’s still early days on the project, then, but we may already know something about the storyline that will really excite fans: it could bring back the Klingons in a major way.

We are hearing from a source that the studio may have already chosen the antagonist of the film, and it’s a fan favorite villain pulled from the franchise’s past. Namely, Kruge, the Klingon warlord, who first appeared in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock, as portrayed by Christopher Lloyd.

While the idea of ST4 rebooting a classic foe might make fans anxious, considering Benedict Cumberbatch’s Khan in Star Trek into Darkness, there’s cause for celebration here as it’d mean the Klingon species would finally be tackled in the Kelvin timeline.

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